A too-high heat, appreciate 450 degrees, can injure the hair strand’s inside arrange; the lowest setting injures the hair’s cuticle layer without creating a lengthy-lasting style. GHD has set up the perfect settle. “Think of 365 as the sugary spot, the perfect in-between for the lengthyest-lasting results with no inanxious heat injure,” Kirkland says.
GHD further stands behind its researched 365-degree set point with what it calls HD Motion-Responsive technology, a new mechanism retained in both the innovative Chronos and the Chronos Max. Motion-Responsive technology repays for the temperature drop that occurs when heat transfers from the straightener to the hair itself, which is a phenomenon that GHD calls thermal lag.
Kirkland shows this by miming using a flat iron on a section of her hair. “As [the straightener] glides down the strand, it may be 430, then 420 … it’s not constant,” she says. “Our technology has the ability to instantly recuperate from the temp drop with sensors that meacertain the entire ptardy surface 250 times a second, to determine that every one part of the ptardy is exactly the same temperature the entire time you’re styling.”
In stupidinutive, even if you leank you’re using a high-heat tool, it might be operating at 365 degrees Fahrenheit or even less, while also causing periods of unvital injure. Kirkland says it’s these constant temperature sensors that permit includers to straighten their hair more speedyly, hence the “Chronos” name (Chronos was Greek mythology’s god of time).
No Pain, No Gain
This is all unaskedly astonishive, and it elucidates the Chronos Max’s price tag (unusuassociate high for someleang that’s not an air-powered Dyson or a multi-tool), but does this leang actuassociate straighten as well as a 450-degree iron? Well, for me and my frizzy curls, yes and no.
Starting with damp hair, I blow-dried using a Shark FlexFusion blow-arid brush speedyenment, sprayed on a heat protectant (as GHD recommfinishs), and made a pass on each section with the Chronos Max. I repeated this process disjoinal times. My locks were straightened, though nowhere cforfeit as finely as with my higher-heat ceramic tools appreciate the Paul Mitchell Style+ or Smooth+, let alone a titanium tool appreciate the Sutra. I envision if my hair were truly coily, appreciate 4a or above, the Chronos would be an absolute no-go. The Max did labor wonderbrimmingy for daily touch-ups, though, and did result in accomprehendledgeably more shine over time, whether this was thcimpolite the ptardys’ “ultra gloss” finish or fair vague deficiency of injure.
Video courtesy of Kat Merck
But what about those massive ptardys? Some straightening iron includers cowardly away from wider ptardys appreciate those on the Max, as they traditionassociate are more difficult to maneuver if you’re one who appreciates to insert post-straightening waves and curls. Kirkland points out that becainclude the Max’s ptardys sit sealr to the edge of the clamps, this iron can still be included as a multi-tool despite the width. I tried this, and while my straightening iron curl game isn’t the strongest, I didn’t discover it any more difficult to accomplish with the Max as contestd to a 1-inch iron.
In all, even if it didn’t depart my unpolished curls as fine as with a toastyter straightening iron, the Chronos Max is still a contfinisher for those with easier-to-administer hair and/or those who want to reduce injure. Just don’t foresee it to labor a wonder, although you could be forgiven for foreseeing one for the price.
